“It doesn’t make sense,” he said. “I’m a big proponent of education. I come from a family of educators. Cutting education to me is a big deal because that could mean, not just for my immediate family but other families, sequestration could mean possible cuts.”

Zachary Flatebo said cutting education is cutting the future.

“The more you cut education, the less educated people will be,” he said.

Student Chad Cracraft said cuts are needed, but education should not be one of them.

“We can’t cut our future,” he said.

Trona High School student Chaz Pitman said sequestration can be a good thing if the right programs are cut.

He suggested cutting programs such as Obamacare and politicians’ pay.

“They should be cutting the useless programs that don’t really affect us,” said student Deandra Renzleman.

She also suggested cutting foreign aid.

Student Teddy Johnson said sequestration is a humongous travesty.

“We should focus on getting government spending under control,” he said.

Trona student James Williams said sequestration is a scare tactic.

“There’s no reason why we have to cut anything,” he said.

Brian Hotz said sequestration can be good, but he does not believe it will be good.

“We’ll be cutting the wrong things in the wrong places,” he said. “It hurts me that the American people are not vigilant enough.”

Student Larrina Jones said President Barack Obama is trying to scare the people.

“They will cut things that will affect us,” she said. “If they cut bad programs, that’s okay, but they’ll cut the ones that are important to us because they’re trying to scare us so they can get what they want.”

Page 2 of 2 - Johnson said he does not understand why education should be cut.

“We’re already so far behind. No Child Left Behind is obviously not working,” he said. “Procrastination is to blame. They pushed it back far enough, so now it’s a problem.”

All of the students said they are all of, or close to, voting age and will be eligible to vote in the 2014 election, and they are very likely to remember this.